KNOWLEDGE THIS MONTH
THIS MONTH ON EDGE
When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this
GAME
Wordle
bit.ly/wordledge
If you’re not playing, you surely can’t have failed to notice the green and yellow squares in your Twitter feed. But on the off-chance you’ve somehow dodged the phenomenon, Wordle is a no-frills word game that essentially offers a twist on the code-breaking puzzler Mastermind. Each day, every player has the same single word of five letters to guess within six turns: green squares signify a letter in the right place, while yellows represent a letter that appears elsewhere in the word. Its elegant, spoilerfree social media integration has doubtless helped it go viral, while introducing an element of gentle competition and encouraging friendly discussion about optimal starter words. How delightful to see something so straightforward succeed without any grubby extrinsic hooks; playing Wordle daily is its own reward.